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safecat is an implementation of D. J. Bernstein's maildir algorithm.
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It can be used to write mail messages to a qmail-style maildir, or
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to write data to a "spool" directory reliably. There are no lockfiles
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with safecat, and nothing is left to chance. If safecat returns a
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successful exit status, then you can be (practically) 100% sure
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your data is safely committed to disk. Further, if data is written
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to a directory using safecat (or other implementations of the
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maildir algorithm), then every file in that directory is guaranteed
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to be complete. If safecat fails to write all of the data, there
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will be no file at all in the destination directory.
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